Gaza, “outraged and heartbroken for the humanitarian workers”. Biden shakes Israel –

Joe Biden makes no concessions to Israel. The US president said Tel Aviv was not doing enough to protect aid workers and called for a swift investigation into the Israel Defense Forces drone strike in Gaza that killed seven people working for the charity World Central Kitchen . “This conflict has been one of the worst in recent times in terms of the number of humanitarian workers killed,” the words of the US president, in comments highly critical of Israel’s actions in Gaza. The attack on the WCK convoy killed Australian, British and Polish citizens, as well as Palestinians and a dual US and Canadian citizen. Early this morning, IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi attributed the attack to a “mistake of identification”, adding that “the raid was not carried out with the intention of harming WCK aid workers” and that It was a mistake that shouldn’t have happened.

Biden said he was “outraged and heartbroken” by the death of the humanitarian workers and stressed that it was not an isolated incident: “This is one of the main reasons why the distribution of humanitarian aid in Gaza has been so difficult, because Israel has not done enough to protect aid workers trying to provide desperately needed aid to civilians… Israel has not done enough to protect civilians.”

More than 200 aid workers have been killed in Gaza since the war between Israel and Hamas began following the militant group’s attack on Israeli communities on October 7, Jamie McGoldrick, the top UN coordination official, said yesterday of humanitarian aid in Gaza. The attack on the WCK was not an “isolated incident”, he added, stressing that the number of aid workers killed in the last six months in Gaza was almost three times higher than the death toll recorded in any other conflict in a year .